The rise of authoritarianism is the one of the most urgent and complex questions facing the world today. The problem is highlighted by President Trump’s statements endorsing the use of torture, his attacks on the press and independent institutions of government, and his apparent affinity with authoritarian leaders including Presidents Putin and Duterte. Elsewhere, the election of leaders in Turkey, Hungary, Poland with authoritarian policies (or, at least, tendencies), and the abolition of term-limits on President Xi Jinping and China’s growing militarism raise the spectre of a widespread threat to liberal democracy. While the features of this turn to authoritarianism are beginning to be analysed, too little is known about how best to counter it – both in its embryonic and advanced stages – and the different strategies likely to be effective in different settings. What is known, from the bitter experience of the first half of the twentieth century, are the consequences of failure. This Workshop will bring together world-leading experts in critical and feminist approaches to law, politics and philosophy, together with civil society participants to consider the intertwined roles to be played by these disciplines in understanding and countering the rise of authoritarianism.